There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can’t even correct yours.

Never stop learning to be who you are meant to be just because you have found someone and decided to be like him/her.

In Paris, Julien’s position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but in Paris love is the child of the novels. The young tutor and his timid mistress would have...

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

An imitation rough diamond.

Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely original;...

Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings and create imitation emotions. Easily torn down when it’s time to show the...

The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, “i did it”, without any confidence and prove.

You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting at the bus stop for your unfulfilled return!

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man’s original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

An echo has no voice of its own.

Without authenticity, we are only a poor imitation of someone else.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin.

I don’t like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don’t like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there’s a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this...